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Re: [cf-dev] Line endings
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Great, this sounds like an informed decision then! :)
I suggest we finish all fixes for 1.0.0 and then do a "prettifying" commit changing the line endings. Maybe there are some such changes like updating the copyright date in all files...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Hudalla Kai (INST/ESY)
> Sent: Freitag, 28. August 2015 14:00
> To: Californium (Cf) developer discussions <cf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [cf-dev] Line endings
>
> From what I learned from several Stack Overflow posts, I think that it makes
> most sense to have Unix line endings (\n) in the repository (GitHub).
> This way, people developing on Linux etc can simply keep the files as-is and
> people working on Windows can have Git translate between LF <-> CRLF
> during check-out/-in automatically.
> This can be done on Windows by setting the Git configuration property
> core.autcrlf = true at either the global or repository level.
>
> On GitHub I also found a page https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-
> line-endings/ providing some advice on how to "normalize" all line endings in
> a repo in one step.
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: cf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]" im
> Auftrag von "Kovatsch Matthias [kovatsch@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. August 2015 13:57
> An: Californium (Cf) developer discussions
> Betreff: [cf-dev] Line endings
>
> Hi all
>
> With more committers on board, the issue of different line endings popped
> up again. I also found a few files that were inconsistent.
>
> Originally, the code started out with Windows line endings. I consider this the
> "safer" why because I never encountered an editor that cannot handle \r\n
> (but the other way round).
>
> However, if the overall default for open source is \n, then we can change to
> this and avoid the confusion in commits and pull-requests. Please share your
> experience or knowledge on that, so we can put this to an educated vote.
>
> Ciao
> Matthias
>
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